Post by Elyse Umemoto on Feb 13, 2015 1:45:14 GMT
I am voting for...
to win The Survivor Games: Tuvalu.
I wanted to make this final confessional to sort of touch base on my gameplay and some of the things I did throughout the game to hopefully explain it a little better for you guys. The first person that I talked to in this game was Morgan, and we hit it off the bat instantly. I can definitely say that she is, and will remain, one of my best friends that I've met through ORGs and I hope that she gets this win that I feel she rightfully deserves. One person that I didn't mention in my first, and only, confessional was Shane, mainly because I had a lot that I wanted to say about him, and I wanted to go through my logs with him and talk about the great relationship I had with him, but unfortunately I never got around to it and then I lost all of the messages. Shane and I bonded rather quickly, and we both agreed that we wanted to form a majority alliance on the original Loa Seki tribe. I told him that I had talked to Morgan, Alec, and Brenda so far and really felt comfortable with them, and that if the five of us could work together, that would be ideal. He told me to try and approach them about forming an alliance, so I went to work and did exactly that, and eventually formed the alliance which I subsequently named Shane and the BEAM Team. Luckily, our tribe didn't have to face Tribal Council until the first tribe switch, so we didn't have to worry about much at the beginning. Shane I guess realized that he would be going out of the country and would not have the time to commit to this game, and decided to shake things up before he left by leaking the two majority alliances on the original Loa Seki tribe. One being the alliance I formed of Shane and the BEAM team, and the other being an alliance formed by Coach which consisted of himself, Cao Boi, and Shane/Morgan/Alec. Shane had already told me about Coach's counteralliance right as it was being formed, so it came as no surprise to me. I knew that he was planning on sticking with the alliance I had formed, and I'm confident that had we gone to Tribal Council before the first tribe switch that Morgan and Alec would have sided with us over Coach and Cao Boi. Shane had told me that he wanted the BEAM team to make it to the end before he was about to leave, and that he would do anything he could to help put us in a good position to make it there before he had to go. Alec and I decided that we needed to replace Shane with a new fifth member since he was going to be leaving, and we both agreed that Sandra would be a better choice than Pete. Alec went and approached Sandra about it, and together we formed a new alliance which I eventually named Alec's Angels, after Brenda mentioned how us being four girls with one guy was kind of like Charlie's Angels. Then the first tribe switch happened. Alec and Morgan were on one tribe, while Brenda, Sandra, and I were on another. We ended up winning immunity, all thanks to John K, and Alec and Morgan went to Tribal Council where Morgan was originally trying to target Bob, but because Cao Boi wouldn't go for it, he ended up getting his buddy Coach voted out instead. That was also the round that I won both the Fog Horn and the Black X at Treasure Trove. I told Morgan about the Fog Horn right when I won it, as I was beyond excited about it, and we decided to share the good news with the rest of the alliance. We all agreed that the best time to use it would be in the following round, and I wanted our original alliance back together (including Shane) and I wanted to swapfuck John K because I felt that he was a threat at the time, so I brought Morgan/Alec/Shane over to us and sent Jefra/Cochran/Hope to the other tribe. We then proceeded to throwing the challenge to boot John K. I know it may have seemed merciless on my part, but I did what I felt I had to do. This was also the time that Shane removed himself from the game. Then JW surprised us with another tribe swap the following round, and Alec/Brenda/I stayed together while Morgan/Sandra went to the other tribe. I personally was nervous for Morgan in particular on that other tribe, so I proceeded to throw the next few immunity challenges because we had already been talking to Hope and she was on board with flipping to our side. We went to the first Tribal Council on this tribe, and I guess Cochran had approached Alec about his interest in flipping to us as well, so either way we were all set. We then voted out Jefra once and for all because she tended to annoy a lot of people, even though Hope and I were trying to figure out a way to get rid of Cochran that round instead because we felt that he was more of a threat than Jefra, and that him getting closer to Alec would give Alec a potential person to flip on us with in a merge situation. It didn't end up happening, and we just voted out Jefra that round. That was also the round with the message in a bottle twist, and Jaclyn opened the bottle revealing that we would have to vote out another person and Jaclyn would be able to anonymously give someone on our tribe immunity and nobody would know about it, not even them, until after the votes were read. I believe that Alec had originally wanted to get rid of Cao Boi, but Hope and I played to this twist to target Cochran before Cao Boi instead. It ended up working, and we managed to get Cochran out. Then we got smoked in the next challenge after that when Jaclyn and Alec played battleship, which worked out in my favor, and we voted out Cao Boi. Then we switched tribes YET AGAIN, and Sandra and I were outnumbered on a tribe with Jaclyn/Courtney/Bob Dawg while Alec/Brenda/Morgan were on the other tribe, with Hope as well, and had a clear majority. Both tribes were going to Tribal Council, and there was individual immunity available for each tribe. It was the throwing rocks challenge, and I tried to stay under the radar and not throw any rocks until the very last minute when I had to in order to be eligible to win. Morgan and I each won individual immunity for our respective tribes, which I was ecstatic about because I knew I had a strong possibility of going home seeing as Sandra and I were outnumbered. It was around this time that Morgan formed the all girls alliance of herself, Hope, Jaclyn, Courtney, Brenda, and I, and we had agreed on getting rid of the guys simply because they had a penis. I was hoping that Morgan's tribe would just vote out Pete, because I liked Alec and was in an alliance with him, but Morgan decided that Alec was a bigger threat than Pete, especially in a potential merge situation, and decided to target him instead. Our tribe was supposed to target Bob Dawg, and Courtney was all for that because her and Sandra had bonded over literature, and she liked Sandra, so Bob Dawg was the obvious choice. Then all of a sudden about a half hour later, Jaclyn came to me telling me that Courtney had a change of heart, and now wanted Sandra out. This came out of left field to me, and it confused me that Courtney would have Jaclyn be the messenger for me and not tell me herself. I shared this information with Morgan and we both agreed that it looked incredibly shady. Sandra and I decided to approach Bob Dawg about voting for Courtney instead because of this, and it seemed like he was on board with it, but when the votes were revealed it was shown that he had decided to vote with Courtney/Jaclyn for Sandra. On Morgan's tribe, Jaclyn had passed her idol over to Alec, and Alec had voted for Hope, thus eliminating her. This was very upsetting for Morgan and I, because we had a final 3 alliance with Hope that we planned on sticking to (Brenda being our fourth). Then FINALLY we merged. It was a shit show, and after all that had went down the round before, the lines were drawn at 4 vs. 4. One side consisted of Jaclyn/Courtney/Alec/Bob Dawg and one side consisted of Morgan/Brenda/Pete/I. Morgan managed to swing Bob Dawg over to vote out Alec with us, and Jaclyn/Courtney/Alec had voted for me. The next round, we tried to finally get rid of Jaclyn once and for all, and felt confident that even if Bob Dawg didn't plan on sticking with us, that we would at least have Pete. Well, Bob Dawg flipped back to Jaclyn/Courtney and brought Pete with him, which got me voted out in a 4-3 vote over Jaclyn. That pretty much sums up my game up until that point, and from thereon out I was rooting for Morgan and Brenda to somehow defy the odds and make it to the finals together so I could vote for one of them to win, which they managed to do, and I'm voting Morgan because I feel she played the best out of the girls in the final three.
